RESUMENFrente a la preeminencia del metodo hipotetico deductivo y la extension del modelo de equilibrio general al estudio de todos los fenomenos de la vida economica, algunas corrientes teoricas se han alzado contra la hegemonia y de esta manera de concebir la relacion sociedad-naturaleza. En el articulo se intenta establecer el grado de influencia de algunas posturas epistemologicas disidentes, en particular la proveniente de la ecologia, en la estructura metodologica y conceptual de la ciencia economica, que se ocupa de la problematica del medio ambiente. Desde esta perspectiva, el trabajo examina el sentido de las categorias analiticas a las que ha dado lugar la discusion disciplinar sobre el medio ambiente, se expone la controversia de los alcances de la economia en el contexto de los estudios del desarrollo, se juzga la contundencia de la economia ecologica como propuesta alternativa soportada en la nocion de paradigma y se concluye senalando el grado de avance de las posturas criticas de la corriente dominante, sin endilgarles el caracter de revolucionarias.ABSTRACTAs opposed to the preeminence of the deductive hypothetical method and the extension of the model of general balance to the study of all the phenomena of the economic life, some theoretical currents have raised against the hegemony and colonialismo way to conceive the relation society nature. In this text it is tried to establish the degree of influence of some dissident epistemologicas positions, like which they come from the ecology, in the methodologic and conceptual structure of the economic science, that takes care of the problematic one of environment. From this perspective, the work examines the sense of the analytical categories to which it has given rise the discussion to discipline on environment, exposes the controversy of the reaches of the economy in the context of the studies of the development, the forcefulness of supported alternative the ecological economy is judged as propose in the paradigm notion and it concludes indicating the degree of advance of the positions you criticize of the dominant current, without endilgar the character to them of revolutionaries.